Exodus 12:23

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

For the LORD will pass through to strike Egypt, and when he sees the blood on the top of the doorframe and the two side posts, then the LORD will pass over the door, and he will not permit the destroyer to enter your houses to strike you.

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  • Heb 11:28 : 28 By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of the blood, so that the one who destroyed the firstborn would not touch them.
  • Rev 7:3 : 3 “Do not damage the earth or the sea or the trees until we have put a seal on the foreheads of the servants of our God.”
  • Rev 9:4 : 4 They were told not to damage the grass of the earth, or any green plant or tree, but only those people who did not have the seal of God on their forehead.
  • 1 Cor 10:10 : 10 And do not complain, as some of them did, and were killed by the destroying angel.
  • Exod 12:12-13 : 12 I will pass through the land of Egypt in the same night, and I will attack all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both of humans and of animals, and on all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment. I am the LORD. 13 The blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are, so that when I see the blood I will pass over you, and this plague will not fall on you to destroy you when I attack the land of Egypt.
  • Ezek 9:6 : 6 Old men, young men, young women, little children, and women– wipe them out! But do not touch anyone who has the mark. Begin at my sanctuary!” So they began with the elders who were at the front of the temple.
  • Heb 12:24 : 24 and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks of something better than Abel’s does.
  • 2 Sam 24:16 : 16 When the angel extended his hand to destroy Jerusalem, the LORD relented from his judgment. He told the angel who was killing the people,“That’s enough! Stop now!”(Now the LORD’s angel was near the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.)
  • Isa 37:36 : 36 The LORD’s angel went out and killed 185,000 troops in the Assyrian camp. When they got up early the next morning, there were all the corpses!
  • Ezek 9:4 : 4 The LORD said to him,“Go through the city of Jerusalem and put a mark on the foreheads of the people who moan and groan over all the abominations practiced in it.”

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  • 90%

    10You must leave nothing until morning, but you must burn with fire whatever remains of it until morning.

    11This is how you are to eat it– dressed to travel, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. You are to eat it in haste. It is the LORD’s Passover.

    12I will pass through the land of Egypt in the same night, and I will attack all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both of humans and of animals, and on all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment. I am the LORD.

    13The blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are, so that when I see the blood I will pass over you, and this plague will not fall on you to destroy you when I attack the land of Egypt.

    14This day will become a memorial for you, and you will celebrate it as a festival to the LORD– you will celebrate it perpetually as a lasting ordinance.

  • 89%

    20You will not eat anything made with yeast; in all the places where you live you must eat bread made without yeast.’”

    21Then Moses summoned all the elders of Israel, and told them,“Go and select for yourselves a lamb or young goat for your families, and kill the Passover animals.

    22Take a branch of hyssop, dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and apply to the top of the doorframe and the two side posts some of the blood that is in the basin. Not one of you is to go out the door of his house until morning.

  • Exod 12:6-8
    3 verses
    85%

    6You must care for it until the fourteenth day of this month, and then the whole community of Israel will kill it around sundown.

    7They will take some of the blood and put it on the two side posts and top of the doorframe of the houses where they will eat it.

    8They will eat the meat the same night; they will eat it roasted over the fire with bread made without yeast and with bitter herbs.

  • 81%

    26When your children ask you,‘What does this ceremony mean to you?’–

    27then you will say,‘It is the sacrifice of the LORD’s Passover, when he passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt, when he struck Egypt and delivered our households.’” The people bowed down low to the ground,

  • 78%

    29The Deliverance from Egypt It happened at midnight– the LORD attacked all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the prison, and all the firstborn of the cattle.

    30Pharaoh got up in the night, along with all his servants and all Egypt, and there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was no house in which there was not someone dead.

  • 28By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of the blood, so that the one who destroyed the firstborn would not touch them.

  • 24You must observe this event as an ordinance for you and for your children forever.

  • Exod 11:4-7
    4 verses
    75%

    4Moses said,“This is what the LORD has said:‘About midnight I will go throughout Egypt,

    5and all the firstborn in the land of Egypt will die, from the firstborn son of Pharaoh who sits on his throne, to the firstborn son of the slave girl who is at her hand mill, and all the firstborn of the cattle.

    6There will be a great cry throughout the whole land of Egypt, such as there has never been, nor ever will be again.

    7But against any of the Israelites not even a dog will bark against either people or animals, so that you may know that the LORD distinguishes between Egypt and Israel.’

  • 74%

    42It was a night of vigil for the LORD to bring them out from the land of Egypt, and so on this night all Israel is to keep the vigil to the LORD for generations to come.

    43Participation in the Passover The LORD said to Moses and Aaron,“This is the ordinance of the Passover. No foreigner may share in eating it.

  • 3Tell the whole community of Israel,‘In the tenth day of this month they each must take a lamb for themselves according to their families– a lamb for each household.

  • 4But the LORD will distinguish between the livestock of Israel and the livestock of Egypt, and nothing will die of all that the Israelites have.”’”

  • 12They must not leave any of it until morning, nor break any of its bones; they must observe it in accordance with every statute of the Passover.

  • 15When Pharaoh stubbornly refused to release us, the LORD killed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of people to the firstborn of animals. That is why I am sacrificing to the LORD the first male offspring of every womb, but all my firstborn sons I redeem.’

  • 4Now the Egyptians were burying all their firstborn, whom the LORD had killed among them; the LORD also executed judgments on their gods.

  • 11He will come and attack Egypt. Those who are destined to die of disease will die of disease. Those who are destined to be carried off into exile will be carried off into exile. Those who are destined to die in war will die in war.

  • 1The Institution of the Passover The LORD said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt,

  • 6And the LORD did this on the next day; all the livestock of the Egyptians died, but of the Israelites’ livestock not one died.

  • 12The LORD said to Moses,“Extend your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up over the land of Egypt and eat everything that grows in the ground, everything that the hail has left.”

  • 20Those of Pharaoh’s servants who feared the LORD’s message hurried to bring their servants and livestock into the houses,

  • 24In the morning watch the LORD looked down on the Egyptian army through the pillar of fire and cloud, and he threw the Egyptian army into a panic.

  • 23For my angel will go before you and bring you to the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, and I will destroy them completely.

  • 6They will fill your houses, the houses of your servants, and all the houses of Egypt, such as neither your fathers nor your grandfathers have seen since they have been in the land until this day!’” Then Moses turned and went out from Pharaoh.

  • 20Inscribe them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates

  • 19Anyone who leaves your house will be responsible for his own death– we are innocent in that case! But if anyone with you in the house is harmed, we will be responsible.

  • 5In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at twilight, is a Passover offering to the LORD.

  • Exod 8:21-22
    2 verses
    70%

    21If you do not release my people, then I am going to send swarms of flies on you and on your servants and on your people and in your houses. The houses of the Egyptians will be full of flies, and even the ground they stand on.

    22But on that day I will mark off the land of Goshen, where my people are staying, so that no swarms of flies will be there, that you may know that I am the LORD in the midst of this land.

  • 8He struck down the firstborn of Egypt, including both men and animals.

  • 13Moses said to the people,“Do not fear! Stand firm and see the salvation of the LORD that he will provide for you today; for the Egyptians that you see today you will never, ever see again.

  • 46It must be eaten in one house; you must not bring any of the meat outside the house, and you must not break a bone of it.

  • 1The Passover-Unleavened Bread Festival Observe the month Abib and keep the Passover to the LORD your God, for in that month he brought you out of Egypt by night.